Burara amara

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| name = Small green awlet

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| image_caption = Male (above), female (middle), male underside (lower)

| genus = Burara

| species = amara

| authority = (Moore, 1866){{LepIndex |id=181329 |name=Bibasis amara}} Retrieved April 19, 2018.

| synonyms = Ismene amara Moore 1866

Pola amara (Moore 1866)

Bibasis amara (Moore 1866)

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Burara amara, the small green awlet,Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/coeliadinae/bibasis/index.html Page on genus Bibasis.] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in Northeast India and Southeast Asia. The butterfly has been reassigned to the genus Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is now Burara amara.Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on [http://tolweb.org/Bibasis/94259/2007.02.21 genus Bibasis] and [http://tolweb.org/Burara/94260/2007.02.21 genus Burara] in the [http://tolweb.org/ Tree of Life Web Project]) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species, the crepuscular remainder having been removed to Burara. The species now shifted to Burara are morphologically and behaviorally distinct from Bibasis, within which many authors have formerly included them.

Range

The small green awlet ranges from India, (Sikkim eastwards through Assam), to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Hainan and south Yunnan. It is also found in the Andaman islands.

The type locality is northeast Bengal.

File:Small green awlet - Bibasis amara.jpg in the Andamans]]

Status

It is rare in the Himalayas and very rare in the Andamans.{{cite book |last=Evans |first1=W.H. |authorlink=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 |page=319, ser no I 2.16 }}

Description

The butterfly has a wingspan of 45 to 55 mm.

Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae.

{{quote|Male and female. Upperside brown with a greenish gloss; costal streak of forewing ochreous yellow in the male, less prominent in the female; male with a blackish subbasal patch. Cilia of both wings short and brownish white. Body dark brown; abdomen with greyish segmental bands. Underside, forewing brown, becoming bluish black along the base of the costa; posterior margin broadly brownish white; hindwing bluish black; veins of both wings brownish white, the space between them having a greyish blue parallel line running their entire length. Both wings also with the black ochreous-yellow-encirled basal spot. Thorax in front and beneath, head, palpi, legs, middle of abdomen, and anal tuft ochreous yellow. Femora and tibiae with a black spot; sides of abdomen black, the segmental bands prominent, Cilia greyish.}}

Habits

It is crepuscular.

References

External links

{{cite web |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/ |title=The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) |last1=Beccaloni |first1=George |last2=Scoble |first2=Malcolm |last3=Kitching |first3=Ian |last4=Simonsen |first4=Thomas |last5=Robinson |first5=Gaden |last6=Pitkin |first6=Brian |last7=Hine |first7=Adrian |last8=Lyal |first8=Chris |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=2016-10-15 }}
Brower, Andrew V. Z. and Warren, Andrew, (2007). Coeliadinae Evans 1937. Version 21 February 2007 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Coeliadinae/12150/2007.02.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
{{cite web |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ |title=Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera }}